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Congress’ work at the centre of a meeting on European politics and the Salzburg Regional Parliament

Congress’ work at the centre of a meeting on European politics and the Salzburg Regional Parliament[21/10/2013]

Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, Head of the Austrian delegation to the Congress (Austria, SOC) and Vice-President of Salzburg Regional Parliament, and Andreas Kiefer, Secretary General of the Congress, attended a meeting on the theme of “Salzburg Parliament in Europe – Europe in Salzburg Parliament” in Salzburg, Austria, on 19 October 2013. Gudrun Mosler-Törnström spoke about the Congress’s monitoring and election observation activities and gave an overview on current political campaigns. She underlined that the aim of the Congress is to promote mutual learning and the exchange of best practices, in a way that Council of Europe member states were able to develop their own strategies on local and regional politics. Andreas Kiefer welcomed the fact that Salzburg Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional and Administrative Affairs had adopted an amendment to the Law on associations of municipalities facilitating inter-municipal co-operation. This directly implements a recommendation set out in the Congress’s 2010 monitoring report on Austria. The final adoption of the amended Law is scheduled for the plenary session of Parliament on 30 October 2013. [Photo: Josef Schöchl, Chair of the European Affairs Committee - Michaela Petz-Michez, Head of the European Affairs servcie and of the Brussels Office of Land Salzburg - Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, Vice-President of the Land Salzburg Parliament and Head of the Austrian Delegation to the Congress - Brigitta Pallauf, President of the Land Salzburg Parliament and ALternate Member of the Committee of the Regions - Franz Schasuberger, Former President of Land Salzburg, Member in the Commitee of the Regions and Rapporteur on Decentralisation - Andreas Kiefer, Secretary General of the Congress]